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SEC smackdown and SuperTruck news overwhelm convention dispatches

8 March 2024

The annual Work Truck Week and American Trucking Associations Maintenance & Technology Council pile on stakeholder-specific dispatches each March. But this week bigger stories originated outside the convention halls in Indianapolis and New Orleans.

The Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington is as good a starting point as any.

Lordstown Motors gets an SEC comeuppance

Nearly three years after Hindenberg Research set its sights on Lordstown Motors Corp., accusing the former special purpose...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/sec-smackdown-and-supertruck-news-overwhelm-convention-dispatches

Daimler Truck’s GenH2 is more than just a fuel cell

26 October 2022

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HANNOVER, Germany — The first thing to know about Daimler Truck’s GenH2 fuel cell truck is that it...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/daimler-trucks-genh2-is-more-than-just-a-fuel-cell

Paccar, Daimler, Volvo get bulk of $127M in SuperTruck 3 funding

2 November 2021

Truck manufacturers Paccar Inc., Daimler Trucks North America and Volvo Group North America snagged the lion’s share of $127 million in federal SuperTruck 3 money to pursue advanced battery-electric and fuel cell electric truck projects.

Funding also went to automakers General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. to develop Class 4-6 medium-duty projects. In total, the Department of Energy awarded $199 million to fund 25 projects to help put cleaner cars and trucks on the road.

When originally announced...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/paccar-daimler-volvo-get-bulk-of-127m-in-supertruck-3-funding

Alleviating cost fears in Biden’s electric-truck push

16 April 2021

As the Biden administration attempts a hard turn toward electrifying transportation, small, independent owner-operators — who represent the vast majority of trucks on the road — fear that the cost of moving in that direction could put them out of business.

But commercial drivers participating in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Super Truck program geared toward reducing emissions are trying to convince them otherwise.

“Early on when we had emission-system truck rollouts, a lot of smaller...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/alleviating-cost-fears-in-bidens-electric-truck-push